Machine for printing checks



UNITED STATES y vPATENT OFFICE.

MACHINE l FOR 'PRINTING cHEcKs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l18,589, dated July 4, 1865.

` ence being hadto the annexed drawings, Inakin g a part of this specication', in which- Figure 2 is a perspective view; Fig.1, a lateral and Fig. 3 an upper insideview, and Fig. 4 a lateral view, of the printing-Wheels with plate andihands attached.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction andoperation.

I construct two or more metal wheels, on the" circumference of which I engrave figures, as

shown at h and i, and thcsewheels, being placed side by side, form units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, furthe use of printing. Each ofthe printing-wheels H and I is attached to a different axle, which slide within each other, and

on the end of eachaxle a hand'is attached, Fl

and G. In the end of each hand a pin is fastened, the point o f which titsinto a socket whichis Opposite each number. Outhe plate K the figures correspond with the lign res ofthe printing-wheels Hand I, so that by moving the hands F and G on',the plate K the same number will be prod nced on the printing-wheels H and I as shown on the plate K. I then construct a. check-holder, A. 'lbe end board, L,

is'pressed forward by the springs m m. By pressing back the board L the checks upon which the numbers are to be printed are deposited in the'space previously occupied by the board L,

\ the checks being thus continually held forward by the springs m m. The check-holder A has a pin on thetop and bottom attached, both of -which slide in grooves out in the projectingplatee. 0n the upper pin ofthe check-holderA the 'rods d d are attached, which are connected with the arih b, which revolves on the same axle with'the printing-.wheels H and I. The ink-roller (l presses closely on the printing-wheels H and Land is attached to the arm b. Bydraw'in g out the check-holder A to the end of the groove in the projecting plates e c it will swing around, so that the check printed can be readily taken from the holder. The drawing out ofthe checkholder will cause the ink-roller C to be brought down and dip into a cup fastened underneath, and for this purpose containing printers ink.

To operate thisl machine is simply to move the hands Fand G'to any desired number of the plate K, the checks being deposited in the holder A', as before described. The. checkholder A is then pressed in against the print? ing-wheels H and I. In pressing in the checkholder A the ink-roller C is brought up, and thereby inking. the number which is to be printed. 'The check-holder is then drawn out and the printed check taken from the same, as above described.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The device for printing numbers on checks, as herein describeihwhich can be constructed so that it may bo attached to scales or otherwise where such printing is required.

. JOS. POLLAK. Witnesses:

GUstrAv KODE, WM. S. GoLsEN. 

